Plains Song, for Female Voices (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wright Morris
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s to the late 1970’s
- Setting: Madison County, Nebraska, and Chicago
- Principal Characters: Cora Atkins, Emerson Atkins, Orion Atkins, Belle Rooney Atkins, Madge Atkins Kibbee, Sharon Rose Atkins
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans
- Locales: Chicago, IL
The Novel
Plains Song, for Female Voices contrasts the lives of two women of the Nebraska plains who seemingly have completely different ways of looking at the world. Cora Atkins comes west from Ohio in the early twentieth century to be a farmwife for Emerson Atkins and learns to accept the limitations of such an existence. Sharon Rose Atkins, Cora’s niece, is appalled by the plains life and heads east to discover herself. The lives of four generations of Atkins women are interwoven in this plotless treatment of changes in a way of life.
Sharon’s mother,...
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